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When Compromised Readers Meet RFID: Extended Version
Aug 2009
RFID-based access control solutions for mobile environments, e.g. ticketing systems for sport events, commonly rely on readers that are not continuously connected to the back-end system. The...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the Workplace: A Consultation Paper on Recommendations for Good Practices
Mar 2008
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada prepared this consultation paper to set out good practice rules for organizations that seek to harness the benefits of RFID technologies. While RFID has...
Provided by Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
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The Ff - Family of Protocols for RFID-Privacy and Authentication
Jun 2009
Ff is a family of lightweight and privacy-preserving authentication protocols for RFID-systems. Contrary to related work, Ff offers user-adjustable authentication and privacy without requiring a...
Provided by Northeastern University
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An Efficient Distance Bounding RFID Authentication Protocol: Balancing False-Acceptance Rate and Memory Requirement
Jul 2009
The Mafia fraud consists in an adversary transparently relaying the physical layer signal during an authentication process between a verifier and a remote legitimate prover. This attack is a major...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Distributed RFID Tag Storage Infrastructures
May 2009
This paper leverages increasing passive RFID tag memory to propose distributed RFID tag storage infrastructures (D-RFID stores). A D-RFID store is a large set of tags with significantly sized...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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An Assessment Methodology of Implantable Medical Device EMI Due to RFID Reader/Writers Based Upon the Three-Dimensional EMF Distribution Measurement
Jul 2008
ElectroMagnetic Interference (EMI) from commercially available RFID reader/writers on implantable cardiac pacemakers and cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) were investigated. The author has carried...
Provided by Hokkaido University
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Design and Development of a Open Frame RFID System Unite Test Platform
Aug 2009
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) System Test Platform has attracted considerable attention in recent years because it has a great impact on many kinds of trade applications. However, there is...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Design and Development of a Novel Paper-Based Inkjet-Printed RFID-Enabled UHF (433.9 MHz) Sensor Node
Dec 2008
In this paper, inkjet-printed RFID-enabled sensor modules are investigated for the first time on paper-based substrates for UHIF sensing/monitoring applications. An inkjet-printed antenna using...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A Field Study of RFID Deployment and Return Expectations
Sep 2007
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology promises to transform supply chain management. Building on previous research in information systems and supply chain management, this paper...
Provided by Production and Operations Management Society
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Requirements for Radio Frequency Identification in Healthcare
Aug 2009
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a growing technology among different industries. As a technology, it has been used since the Second World War, but just in the last decade, the Information...
Provided by European Federation for Medical Informatics
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RFID and Wireless Sensing
Mar 2009
Off late, the demand of markets to use active transponders, is reaching a saturation point. The main reason is because these ones get its power from batteries, which must be periodically replaced...
Provided by University of Minho
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Applying Active RFID in Mining
Jan 2009
This paper introduces active RFID technology: its principles of operation and capabilities. Readers of this paper can gain a proper understanding of the technology so that they can make informed...
Provided by Technews Publishing
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Efficient RFID Data Imputation by Analyzing the Correlations of Monitored Objects
Jan 2009
As a promising technology for tracing the product and human flows, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has received much attention within database community. However, the problem of missing...
Provided by Northeastern University
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Strengthen RFID Tags Security Using New Data Structure
Dec 2008
RFID was first proposed as a technology for the automatic identification of objects. However, some recent RFID devices can provide additional objects information and can be used for other...
Provided by University of Stavanger
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Privacy Protection for RFID Data
Mar 2009
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is a technology of automatic object identification. Retailers and manufacturers have created compelling business cases for deploying RFID in their supply...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Experimental Evaluation of Read Performance for RFID-Based Mobile Sensor Data Gathering Applications
Dec 2008
This paper considers RFID-based sensing applications enabled by passive or semi-passive tags and mobile devices equipped with readers. The paper experimentally investigates the feasibility of such...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Personal Navigator for a Public Transport System Using RFID Ticketing
May 2009
RFID-based public transport ticketing systems rely on widespread networks of RFID readers that locate the user within the transport network in real time to be able to verify whether he can travel...
Provided by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
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Tracking Occupants and Inventory Items in Buildings Using RFID Technology
Jul 2009
In order to make control decisions, Smart Buildings need to collect data from multiple sources and bring it to a central location, such as the Building Management System (BMS). This needs to be...
Provided by University College Cork
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Hybrid Ultrasound - RFID Indoor Positioning: Combining the Best of Both Worlds
Apr 2009
Existing hybrid ultrasound/RF positioning systems usually measure ultrasonic time-of-flight. This operation requires a wide bandwidth and this makes it rather noise sensitive, limiting the useful...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Efficient and Reliable Estimation of Tags in RFID Systems
Mar 2008
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has recently received much attention from various parties involved in supply chain management. Much of the received wisdom emanating from modern corporations...
Provided by University of Canberra
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Multiscan-Based Map Optimizer for RFID Map-Building With Low-Accuracy Measurements
Nov 2008
This paper studies the problem of mobile robot map-building using a low-accuracy RFID sensor. In recent years, there has been increasing number of mobile robot systems using RFID landmarks. A...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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RFID-Enabled Inventory Control Optimization: A Proof of Concept in a Small-to-Medium Retailer
Sep 2009
This study examines the impact of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology on the inventory control practices of a small-to-medium retailer using a Proof of Concept (PoC) approach. The...
Provided by University of Wollongong
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Analysis of Silver Ink Bow-Tie RFID Tag Antennas Printed on Paper Substrates
Oct 2007
In this study, polymeric silver inks, paper substrates, and screen printing were used to produce prototype Bow-Tie tags. Because of increasing interest in applying passive UHF-RFID systems in...
Provided by Tampere University of Technology
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When Compromised Readers Meet RFID
Aug 2009
RFID-based access control solutions for mobile environments, e.g. ticketing systems for sport events, commonly rely on readers that are not continuously connected to the back-end system. The...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Using Innovation Theory to Analyse the Status of RFID Technology Adoption at Industry Level in New Zealand
Dec 2008
Radio Frequency Identification also known as RFID technology has been commercially available since World War II. Early applications of RFID were for military purposes. In recent years, interest...
Provided by Auckland University of Technology
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A Simple and Accurate Model for RFID Rectifier
Dec 2008
In this paper, a simple model for the UHF low power rectifier circuit is proposed. Using a novel approach to model the rectifier current waveform, simple analytical equations are derived. The...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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System Framework and Its Application in Mobile RFID Service Network
Jul 2009
Mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a newly emerging technology which uses the mobile phone as an RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to the user...
Provided by Sungkyunkwan University
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Mobile RFID Tracking System
Feb 2008
This paper describes the design of an RFID Kids Tracking System. It is designed to track a moving child in a wide area, such as a park or mall, using RFID technology. The proposed system has...
Provided by American University of Sharjah
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Characterization of RF Propagation in Muscle Tissue for Passive UHF RFID Tags
Jul 2008
This paper presents an analytical analysis and study of the propagation of Radio Frequency (RF) energy in muscle tissue. The workings of passive UHF RFID tag backscatter are studied. Backscatter...
Provided by University of Texas
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Storing Data on RFID Tags: A Standards-Based Approach
Apr 2009
The potential of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for increasing supply chain efficiency has been repeatedly stressed by practitioners and researchers alike. The cross-company usage of RFID...
Provided by Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
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Sensitivity and Impedance Measurements of UHF RFID Chips
May 2009
This paper describes the sensitivity and impedance measurement method for UHF RF Identification (RFID) chips. The measurements are performed using an RFID tester (RFID reader with variable output...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Adding an On/Off Device to Activate the RFID in Enhanced Driver's Licences: Pioneering a Made-in-Ontario Transformative Technology That Delivers Both Privacy and Security
Mar 2009
There are well-known privacy and security vulnerabilities associated with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. So when the author learned that the inclusion of an RFID would be a...
Provided by Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
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Algebraic Attacks on RFID Protocols
Jun 2009
This work aims to identify the algebraic problems which enable many attacks on RFID protocols. Toward this goal, three emerging types of attacks on RFID protocols, concerning authentication,...
Provided by University of Luxembourg
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Coexistence Proof Using Chain of Timestamps for Multiple RFID Tags
Sep 2009
How can a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices) system prove that two or more RFID tags are in the same location? Previous researchers have proposed yoking-proof and grouping-proof...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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RFID Circuit Design With Optimized CMOS Inductor for Monitoring Biomedical Signals
Feb 2008
RFID is evolving as a major technology enabler for identifying and tracking goods. RFID applications in biomedical area not only need to detect but also require monitoring and transmitting vital...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A Prescription for RFID Success in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Mar 2009
Today's ePharma RFID systems typically track the location of pills from RFID tags or barcodes, and the change of custody at all change of ownership points. Specifically, the system supports...
Provided by FALKEN Secure Networks
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Towards Linking Virtual Models With Physical Objects in Construction Using RFID - Review of Ontologies
Mar 2009
Virtual models have in recent years proven their worth in practice relating to building design. Today virtual models of the complete project are created before the project is carried out in...
Provided by Aalborg University
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Navigating by Stigmergy: A Realization on an RFID Floor for Minimalistic Robots
Feb 2009
Stigmergy is a mechanism that allows the coordination of actions within the same agent or across different agents by means of traces left in the environment. The paper proposes a stigmergetic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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The RFID Radio Channel Performance in the Vehicular Control
Sep 2009
Most terrestrial wireless communication systems operate in environments that present a multitude of RF propagation problems. The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) System, a wireless...
Provided by Instituto Politecnico Nacional
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VLSI Design of an Anti-Collision Protocol for RFID Tags
May 2009
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is slated to become a standard tracking and tagging system for various products chain management systems. Since more and more products become RFID enabled, a...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Optimal Offline Broadcast Scheduling With an Energy Harvesting Transmitter
Mar 2012
The authors consider an energy harvesting transmitter broadcasting individual data to two receivers. Data packets intended for each user are assumed to arrive at arbitrary but known instants. The...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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STAMP: A Strategy-Proof Approximation Auction Mechanism for Spatially Reusable Items in Wireless Networks
Mar 2013
The advent of participatory sensing markets and spectrum markets based on the wireless networks have led to a new kind of auction dealing with spatially reusable items, which can be shared by...
Provided by Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Time-Efficient Protocols for Neighbor Discovery in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Feb 2013
Neighbor Discovery (ND) is a basic and crucial step for initializing wireless ad hoc networks. A fast, precise, and energy-efficient ND protocol has significant importance to subsequent operations...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Community-Aware Opportunistic Routing in Mobile Social Networks
Feb 2013
Mobile Social Networks (MSNs) are a kind of delay tolerant network that consists of lots of mobile nodes with social characteristics. Recently, many social-aware algorithms have been proposed to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Building a Reliable and High-Performance Content-Based Publish/subscribe System
Dec 2012
Provisioning reliability in a high-performance content-based publish/subscribe system is a challenging problem. The inherent complexity of content-based routing makes message loss detection and...
Provided by Reed Business Information
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Fine-Grained Feature-Based Social Influence Evaluation in Online Social Networks
May 2013
The evaluation of a user's social influence is essential for various applications in Online Social Networks (OSNs). The authors propose a fine-grained Feature-Based social Influence (FBI)...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Hop-by-Hop Message Authentication and Source Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mar 2013
Message authentication is one of the most effective ways to thwart unauthorized and corrupted messages from being forwarded in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). For this reason, many message...
Provided by Michigan State University
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Virtual Network Embedding With Opportunistic Resource Sharing
Feb 2013
Network virtualization has emerged as a promising approach to overcome the ossification of the Internet. A major challenge in network virtualization is the so-called virtual network embedding...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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SmartAssoc: Decentralized Access Point Selection Algorithm to Improve Throughput
Oct 2012
As the first step of the communication procedure in 802.11, an unwise selection of the Access Point (AP) hurts one client's throughput. This performance downgrade is usually hard to be offset by...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Behavioral Malware Detection in Delay Tolerant Networks
Sep 2012
The Delay-Tolerant-Network (DTN) model is becoming a viable communication alternative to the traditional infrastructural model for modern mobile consumer electronics equipped with short-range...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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The Design and Evaluation of an Information Sharing System for Human Networks
Jan 2013
With fast-growing consumer demands and rapidly-developing mobile technologies, portable mobile devices are becoming a necessity of the people daily lives. However, existing mobile devices rely on...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Improving Cooperative Trajectory Mapping Applications With Encounter-Based Error Correction
Sep 2012
Cooperative trajectory mapping is an emerging technique that allows users to create such a map by using data that is collected from each other's mobile phones. This technique has been proposed for...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Trade-Off Between Redundancy and Feedback in Wireless Network Communication
Feb 2013
Feedback is an important control mechanism that provides reliability in most wireless network protocols. However, feedback incurs some overhead, especially in lossy network environments. Many...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Energy Efficient Virtual Machine Placement Algorithm With Balanced and Improved Resource Utilization in Data Center
Feb 2013
Powerful data centers are the essential supporting infrastructure for mobile, ubiquitous, and cognitive computing, which are the most popular computing paradigms to utilize all kinds of physical...
Provided by Nanjing University
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Broadcasting With Hard Deadlines in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks Using Network Coding
Mar 2013
Broadcasting with network coding mixes packets to minimize the number of transmissions, which improves the energy efficiency of wireless networks. On the other hand, delaying the transmissions...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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Homing Spread: Community Home-Based Multi-Copy Routing in Mobile Social Networks
Jan 2013
A Mobile Social Network (MSN) is a special Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) composed of mobile nodes with social characteristics. Mobile nodes in MSNs generally visit community homes frequently, while...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Virtual Backbone Construction for Cognitive Radio Networks Without Common Control Channel
Jan 2013
The advantages of virtual backbones have been proven in wireless networks. In Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), virtual backbones can also play a critical role in both routing and data transport....
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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TOUR: Time-Sensitive Opportunistic Utility-Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Jan 2013
In this paper, the authors propose a time-sensitive utility model for Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), in which each message has an attached time-sensitive benefit that decays over time. The...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Dache: A Data Aware Caching for Big-Data Applications Using the MapReduce Framework
Jan 2013
The buzz-word big-data (application) refers to the large-scale distributed applications that work on unprecedentedly large data sets. Google's MapReduce framework and Apache's Hadoop, its...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Efficient Symbol-Level Transmission in Error-Prone Wireless Networks
Apr 2013
Providing reliable transmission over error-prone networks has received a lot of attention from the research community. In this paper, instead of using simple retransmissions to provide...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Social-Tie-Based Information Dissemination in Mobile Opportunistic Social Networks
Mar 2013
A Mobile Opportunistic Social Network (MOSN) is a new type of Delay Tolerant Network (DTN), in which the mobile users contact each other opportunistically. Information dissemination is a...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Sense in Order: Channel Selection for Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks
Apr 2013
This paper considers a pre-phase of spectrum sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), which is about how to choose a channel for spectrum sensing. The authors take the time dimension, spectrum...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Whether and When to Share: Spectrum Sensing as an Evolutionary Game
Apr 2013
Cooperative spectrum sensing is an efficient sensing scheme for Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), in which Secondary Users (SUs) share sensing results with other SUs to improve the overall sensing...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Energy-Efficient Contact Probing in Opportunistic Mobile Networks
Feb 2013
In Opportunistic Mobile Networks (OppNets), data is opportunistically exchanged between nodes who encounter each other. In order to enable such data exchanges, nodes in the network have to probe...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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QoS-Aware Service Selection in Geographically Distributed Clouds
May 2013
As more and more services are offered in clouds, it is possible to meet the diverse demands of users via service composition. Selecting the optimal set of services, in terms of QoS, is the crucial...
Provided by Nanjing University
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Predictive Scheduling for Spatial-Dependent Tasks in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mar 2013
Recent advances in wireless energy transfer technology propel the developments of renewable sensor networks. To sustain the operation of a sensor network, a mobile charger is used to recharge each...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Fault-Aware Flow Control and Multi-Path Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2013
Maintaining an acceptable level of network performance degradation in the presence of faults has been an active research area in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This paper proposes a scheme to...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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A Hierarchical Naming System for Scalable Content Distribution in Large Networks
Dec 2012
The Internet has become a platform for delivering and consuming content. Additionally, mobile devices consume a significant chunk of content, which poses a unique challenge for provisioning...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Deadlock-Free Fully Adaptive Routing in Irregular Networks Without Virtual Channels
May 2013
This paper proposes a new flow control scheme in VCT-switched irregular networks. Based on the new scheme, a novel deadlock-free fully adaptive routing algorithm is introduced. The algorithm does...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Local Monitoring and Maintenance for Operational Wireless Sensor Networks
May 2013
One of the key mechanisms underlying a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is to monitor the network itself. Many existing approaches perform centralized analysis and maintenance based on a large amount...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Cognitive Radio MIMO Gaussian Broadcast Channels With the Power Constraint
Dec 2011
The cognitive radio multiple-input multiple-output Gaussian broadcast channels are studied where multiple antennas are available for both primary users and secondary users in a spectrum sharing...
Provided by Springer Healthcare
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An Improved Parameter Computation Method for a MIMO V2V Rayleigh Fading Channel Simulator Under Non-Isotropic Scattering Environments
Feb 2013
Accurate and efficient Vehicle-To-Vehicle (V2V) channel simulation models play a major role in the design and performance evaluation of V2V communication systems. Deterministic Sum-of-Sinusoids...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Energy Efficiency Evaluation of Cellular Networks Based on Spatial Distributions of Traffic Load and Power Consumption
Mar 2013
Energy efficiency has gained its significance when service providers' operational costs burden with the rapidly growing data traffic demand in cellular networks. In this paper, the authors propose...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Wideband Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey
Apr 2013
Cognitive radio has emerged as one of the most promising candidate solutions to improve spectrum utilization in next generation cellular networks. A crucial requirement for future cognitive radio...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Design of Dual Band Dielectric Resonator Antenna With Serpentine Slot for WBAN Applications
Apr 2013
To achieve dual frequency operation for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications, a hybrid dual-band dielectric resonator antenna with serpentine slot fed by a microstrip line is proposed....
Provided by The World
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Slot Loaded Microstrip Antenna for GPS, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX Applications Survey
Apr 2013
A tri-band slot loaded microstrip antenna is proposed. The tri-band characteristics of antenna are achieved by incorporating a combination of symmetrical Y-shaped and asymmetrical U-shaped slot....
Provided by The World
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A Review on Dynamic MANET on Demand Routing Protocol in MANETs
Apr 2013
Mobile ad-hoc network is one of the types of wireless ad-hoc networks which has distinguished characteristics like: self configuring, decentralized and infrastructure less. Mobile nodes in such a...
Provided by The World
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A Simple and Original Design of Multi-Band Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Communication
Apr 2013
Simulated design and analysis of a new simple multi-band microstrip antenna is presented in this paper. An introduced design covers the requisite bandwidth for GSM/DCS/PCS/UMTS cellular phone...
Provided by The World
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FEM Analysis, Design and Optimization of a Compact Bandpass Filter for Low-Power UWB Communications Applications
Feb 2013
With the aid of the Finite Element Method (FEM) and a commercial EM simulator, the analysis, the design and the optimization of a compact band-pass filter using inter-digital coupled microstrip...
Provided by The World
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Ultra-Wideband Channel Model for Intra-Vehicular Wireless Sensor Networks Beneath the Chassis: From Statistical Model to Simulations
Jan 2013
Intra-Vehicular Wireless Sensor Networks (IVWSNs) are a promising new research area that can provide part cost, assembly, maintenance savings, and fuel efficiency through the elimination of the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Sensor Integration in an RFID Tag for Monitoring Biomedical Signals
May 2008
RFID is evolving as a major technology enabler for identifying and tracking goods. RFID applications in biomedical area not only need to detect but also require monitoring and transmitting vital...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Analysis and Design of Wideband Passive UHF RFID Tags Using a Circuit Model
Mar 2009
The great majority of commercial UHF RFID tags are based on dipole antennas using a modification of a T-match as a matching circuit. The literature contains examples of wideband matching, but...
Provided by University of Kansas
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A Secure Agent Platform for Active RFID
Jul 2009
RFID are used to identify products in factory automation applications; Multi agent systems are a possibility to introduce flexibility into production processes. This paper introduces a platform...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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The Study and Application of Tree-Based RFID Complex Event Detection Algorithm
May 2009
With the extension of RFID application, RFID data processing techniques become one of the core techniques. Recently, researchers adopt the event-centric methods to process RFID data and obtain...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Design & Development Low Cost RFID Antenna
Sep 2009
This paper describes how Low Cost HF (13.56 MHz) antennas can be built and tuned so that their characteristics match the requirements of the high performance reader and third party RF modules....
Provided by Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
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Demo Abstract: Measuring Foot Pronation Using RFID Sensor Networks
Nov 2009
Running efficiency is an important factor to consider in order to avoid injury. In particular, foot pronation, the angle of the foot as it hits the ground, is a common cause for many types of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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A Hardware Authentication Architecture for Pervasive Devices
Feb 2009
This paper presents a hardware implementation for the HB++ authentication protocol. The design is efficient enough to be used in resource constrained pervasive devices like RFID tags or sensor...
Provided by Microsoft
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The Impact of RFID-Based Traceability System on Perceived Competitive Advantage in the Food Industry
Aug 2008
This study examines the impact of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-based traceability system on the competitive advantage in the food industry. The result from the in-depth interview...
Provided by Oklahoma State University
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When Mobile Phones Are RFID-Equipped - Finding E.U.-U.S. Solutions to Protect Consumer Privacy and Facilitate Mobile Commerce
Mar 2009
New mobile phones have been designed to include delivery of mobile advertising and other useful location-based services, but have they also been designed to protect consumers' privacy? One of the...
Provided by Oregon State University
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Efficient Tag Detection in RFID Systems
Jul 2008
Off late technological advances have motivated large-scale deployment of RFID systems. However, a number of critical design issues relating to efficient detection of tags remain unresolved. This...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Performance-Effective and Low-Complexity Redundant Reader Detection in Wireless RFID Networks
Apr 2008
The problems of redundant RFID reader detection and coverage have instigated researchers to propose different optimization heuristics due to the rapid advance of technologies in large-scale RFID...
Provided by Mokwon University
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Study of Material Interference in a RFID Tag Reading
Mar 2009
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method that uses radio signals, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using RFID tags or transponders. RFID...
Provided by University of Aveiro
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RFID-Enable Real-Time Multi-Experiment Training Center Management System
Jun 2009
This paper proposes a real-time web system based on RFID, B/S+C/S (Browser/Server + Client/Server) module and wireless communication so-called 433MHz, all of which are used to solve some crucial...
Provided by University of Hong Kong
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United States Department of Defense Suppliers' Passive RFID Information Guide
Mar 2009
The goal of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) is to employ mature and emerging supply chain technologies to optimize the supply chain. RFID is a transformational technology that...
Provided by ID Integration
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Laydown Yard Optimization Using RFID: A Cost and Time Perspective
Oct 2009
This project reports the use and applications of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technique in a laydown yard zone. Every construction site has a laydown yard with equipments and materials...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Indoor Localization: Automatically Constructing Today's Radio Map by iRobot and RFIDs
Jul 2009
For outdoor localization, GPS already provides a satisfactory solution. For indoor localization, however, a globally usable solution is still missing. One promising direction that is proposed...
Provided by National Chiao-Tung University
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Passive Wireless Sensing Using SWNT- Based Multifunctional Thin Film Patches
Feb 2008
This study presents a high-performance inductively coupled multifunctional carbon nanotube thin film sensor for structural monitoring applications. A versatile layer-by-layer self-assembly sensor...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Development of Digital Photo System Using RFID Technology in Plant Construction Management
Sep 2009
The paper has studied the applicability of RFID tags and developed systems to provide clear work traceability to streamline administrative task in the construction work of a plant. The test...
Provided by Hitachi
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Emerging Technologies: RFID and the Asynchronous Student
Dec 2008
Many learners within the VET system learn on-the-job or through distance education, but occasionally learners need to physically attend a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) for block release...
Provided by Commonwealth of Australia
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Security Aspects and Prospective Applications of RFID Systems
Sep 2008
The new paradigm known as "Pervasive computing" or "Ubiquitous computing" refers to a new development in the field of information and communication technology. During this development more and...
Provided by German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
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Wildlife and Environmental Monitoring Using RFID and WSN Technology
Nov 2009
Wireless Sensor Networks enable scientists to collect information about the environment with a granularity unseen before, while providing numerous challenges to software designers. Since sensor...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Public Key Cryptography on RFID Tags: "A Survey on the GPS Identification Scheme"
Jun 2009
In the last few years, a lot of research effort has been made in the area of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The widespread deployment of RFID tags and their increased usage in...
Provided by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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Power Analysis for the MOS AC/DC Rectifier of Passive RFID Transponders
Mar 2008
The operating principle of MOS FETs AC/DC rectifier for passive RFID transponder is introduced and the power dissipation of MOS rectifier operating with 902M-928MHz Industrial, Scientific, and...
Provided by Tsinghua University
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Agents on RFID Tags - A Chance to Increase Flexibility in Automation
Jul 2009
RFIDs (Radio Frequency Identification) are used for identification of products in manifold areas including industrial automation. Their ability to identify products tremendously supports keeping...
Provided by Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Design Methods for 3D RFID Antennas Located on a Conducting Ground Plane
Feb 2009
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging technology for remotely identifying assets and controlling devices via a wireless link. A typical RFID transponder (tag) consists of an antenna...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A Comparative Analysis of RFID Adoption in Retail and Manufacturing Sectors
Apr 2008
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology mandates by large retailers and various government agencies has driven compliance requirements for many organizations to implement the technology....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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The Impact of Emerging RFID Technology in the Wirefree Environment for Automatic Identification, Data Collection and Dedicated Short Range Communication
May 2009
Radio Frequency Identification is a Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) technology. With RFID, the electromagnetic or electrostatic coupling in the RF (radio frequency) portion of the...
Provided by Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
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Fractal Antenna for Passive UHF RFID Applications
Jul 2009
This paper addresses the design of fractal antennas placed onto dielectric object in the UHF RFID band and introduces a tag antenna configuration of simple geometry having impedance tuning...
Provided by Menoufia University
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Force Sensor System for Structural Health Monitoring Using Passive RFID Tags for Structural Health Monitoring
Jun 2008
For this study, the author developed a contactless loading sensor system that can measure the internal loading of an object structure through several covering materials for the purpose of...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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Untraceability in the Applied Pi-Calculus
Sep 2009
The use of RFID tags in personal items, such as passports, may make it possible to track a person's movements. Even RFID protocols that encrypt their identity may leak enough information to let an...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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Extension of RFID Middleware for Active Sensor Tags
May 2009
RFID of the wire frequency receives the most attention as main technology for making ubiquitous computing. The first RFID development concentrated on the tags attached on the something and...
Provided by Pusan National University
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Effectiveness of Cellular Phone With Active RFID Tag for Evacuation - The Case of Evacuation From the Underground Shopping Mall of Tenjin
Jun 2009
The underground shopping mall has the constructional problem of the fire evacuation. Also, the people sometimes lose their direction and information of current time in the mall. If the emergencies...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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Cell-ID Positioning in WiMAX Networks Analysis of the Clearwire Network in Belgium
Jun 2009
Base station identification, or Cell IDentification (Cell-ID) is the first method used by operators to provide Location-Based Services (LBS). The advantage of using this method is the simplicity...
Provided by Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Comparison Between UMTS/HSPA+ and WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e in Mobility Scenarios
Jan 2009
The main purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of UMTS/HSPA+ and mWiMAX. Two scenarios were considered: single and multiple users. The single user model estimates the cell radius for...
Provided by Instituto de Telecomunicacoes
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An Energy-Efficient Handover Scheme With Geographic Mobility Awareness in WiMAX-WiFi Integrated Networks
Dec 2008
WiFi networks have been deployed in many regions such as buildings and campuses to provide wireless Internet access. However, to support ubiquitous wireless service, one possibility is to...
Provided by National Chiao-Tung University
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Adaptive Antenna Selection at Mobile Stations for SDMA in WiMAX Networks
Sep 2009
The IEEE 802.16/WiMAX standards has fully embraced multi-antenna technology and can, thus, deliver robust performance and high transmission rates. Nevertheless, due to its inherent cost concerns,...
Provided by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
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Fast Dummy Sequence Insertion Method for PAPR Reduction in WiMAX Systems
Aug 2009
In literatures, many researches proposed various methods to reduce PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio). Among those, DSI (Dummy Sequence Insertion) is one of the most attractive methods for WiMAX...
Provided by Suranaree University of Technology
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A WiMAX-Based Implementation of Network MIMO for Indoor Wireless Systems
Jul 2009
It is well known that Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques can bring numerous benefits, such as higher spectral efficiency, to point-to-point wireless links. More recently, there has...
Provided by Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Access Methods to WiMAX Femtocells: A Downlink System-Level Case Study
Nov 2008
Over the last two years, GSM and UMTS femtocell access points have been proposed as a solution to the poor indoor coverage problem experienced in certain areas. Research on these devices has shown...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Hybrid WiMAX and Wi-Fi Networks for the Support of b-Learning and Telemedicine
Mar 2009
This paper addresses the deployment of hybrid WiMAX and Wi-Fi networks for the support of always best connected telemedicine and health sciences education applications. The available services...
Provided by Universidade da Beira Interior
